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MARK LONG Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equalit...
ADRIAN CRONAUER Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial ine...
YVETTE CLARKE Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
JACK SCHWARTZ Make no mistake about it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a Hero of freedom. He is a Hero of justice a...
JONATHAN CHEN I'm trying to remain true to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,
BILL BRADLEY Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of c...
SHAWN AMOS I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luthe...
JOHN LEWIS When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther...
JONATHAN KOZOL Miracle Message #16: “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” — Dr. ...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis.
DAN BROWN We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to j...
CORNEL WEST Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equ...
ADRIAN CRONAUER Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Vo...
DON MASHAK By not just deeming her as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we pay homage to her. The history ...
WILLIE PEARSON James Earl Ray is the reason Martin Luther King Jr. is dead. A four-time loser looking for a big sco...
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HILLARY CLINTON Lee-Jackson Day does not receive equal treatment in Virginia with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. You wi...
BRANDON DORSEY Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a...
MARK PRYOR People take (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) as an opportunity to feel good, not as a challenge to do go...
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m...
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ABHIJIT NASKAR The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like ...
JOHN LEWIS Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in Americ...
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JACK SPITZ The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense...
MALCOLM X The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of ...
JEFFREY TOOBIN I believe it's very important for human rights and equal rights that we honor Dr. Martin Luther King...
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JAMES HANSEN Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m...
MORGAN FREEMAN Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against...
CORNEL WEST Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, G...
ABHIJIT NASKAR This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it...
GARRISON KEILLOR In Haiti, we call him our Martin Luther King.
LAVARICE GAUDIN One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and professio...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified ...
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ZACK WAMP True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress wi...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin...
ROBERT REICH It, in part, derives from experiences the family, and Mrs. King in particular, had over the years wh...
CLIFFORD KUHN I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Ma...
CHARLES B. RANGEL As we move into the 21st century, it's going to be incumbent upon all of us to realize that while Ma...
BERNICE KING It was not enough for Martin Luther King, Jr. to dream about equality. He had to rise and become the...
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MIKE PENCE My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really ...
MONTE IRVIN I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experien...
YVETTE CLARKE In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to de...
MAAJID NAWAZ Great American leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worshipped God just as our Founding Fathers ...
STEVE KING If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is ...
DAVID HOROWITZ No one has the right to pee on your dreams!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to r...
ADAM SCHIFF Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama...
JAY-Z Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by i...
MATTHEW DESMOND I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Martin Luther King used confidence and courage in his struggle for the Civil Rights movement. Those ...
CHARLES SMITH Barack Obama commits war crimes - Somalia, Yemen. He commits war crimes in Pakistan, Afghanistan. Ma...
CORNEL WEST Hell is a place reserved for people who want their enemies to rot in Hell for sinning against them. ...
ATOM TATE Latino media, both print and broadcast, have played an important role (in bringing people out), espe...
FELIX GUTIERREZ If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course ...
CLAUDIA RANKINE I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama...
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LYNN WARGO We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, a...
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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON They, in their own way, continued to carry the torch that Martin Luther King did.
ANTHONY JONES It's sad that on the day we remember Martin Luther King Jr., that a small minority of people believe...
FRAN DUNAWAY I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifyin...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her...
WILLIE PEARSON The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant bes...
MALCOLM X I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-ri...
EMMA STONE I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
RALPH ABERNATHY If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping your...
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Ke...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY She's usually seen as the widow of Martin Luther King. But in reality, she's much more than that.
DR. CORANN OKORODUDU racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. They need only raci...
MICHELLE ALEXANDER We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay...
SAMMY DAVIS JR. To me, it is just freedom for my race and just overall cultural freedom for everyone and liberty. Ma...
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the pe...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. T...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you a...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who acc...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that b...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of f...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of d...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. A right delayed is a right denied.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my vein...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The time is always right to do what is right.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal que...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to d...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but wher...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.